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Instant travel to the most locations: Druid + Wizard
2nd best for this is a guilded person with all the right /claim items that gate somewhere, and possession of all the gate somewhere items in the game, member of fellowship and so on.

Travel around... goes to the person with the fastest mount.

Mountless... bards win hands down. Prior to runspeed AA, the classes that cast spirit of wolf (Druid, shaman, ranger, beast ...think that's it). The chanter illusion scaled wolf is not as good as SoW, but better than a warrior running on foot across Kunark.

"freely"... some races (and classes) have to be careful in more of the old world than others (trolls, Iksars, Ogres, etc.) and good types best be careful around cities considered evil (i.e., Ogguk). Post Luclin this is a nonfactor pretty much in the game (racial factions), most newer content everybody starts out apprehensive or whatever the situation is going to be with the npc.

Classes that can invis and invis undead can move around better. (int casters, shadowknight, beast gets invis I think?)

Classes that can feign death (necro, monk, Shadowknight) at low levels can take greater risks.

Wizard and druid have evacs, necro has a self evac (super handy for crossing some zones if the "succor" point is closer to where you want to be).

Cleric, paladin and necro (at lower levels) have a version of "divine aura" that makes them invincible briefly.

Classes that can mez at low level (bard, chanter, necro at low level, undead only past 50s) and/or pacify (cleric, pally, chanter, druids & rangers outside, others to specific types of enemies) can bypass mobs (or control pulls).

A player that knows the content... (especially dungeons and raid zones)... will move fast no matter what they are playing.

Oh hold on, wait a second. What about the campfires? Suddenly I'm realizing those things do something don't they? Like the campfire on the cyclops island that I sat around while doing JB quest. That has a purpose and a function doesn't it? What do they do?



Maybe I've said this before, but to me, the little time I played EQ when it just came out was exactly like playing AD&D with the most lazy, stingy, cynical, cut-throat DM imaginable. It's fun because it's AD&D. It's fantasy and imagination and cool stuff; but the brutality of the DM sucked the fun completely out of it. It was just an exercise in enduring the pain for sake of the small pleasure of actually doing the fantasy gaming.

Edited, Sep 23rd 2013 2:47pm by broonsbane

Thanks for this info, covers a lot.

Gotta have 3 people from the same Fellowship to create a campfire. Then anyone else in the Fellowship (up to 12 members) can click his Fellowship Insignia thingy and port to the campfire. Definitely has its uses but since 3 players have to GET to the camp spot to make the campfire, it isn't exactly a surefire means of easy travel for all. Useful for the cleric who keeps getting killed in transit, though!

You can only be in one fellowship at a time so it doesn't really work well for pickup groups.

You know about the Call of the Hero mage spell? Get to a zone and be grouped with a mage and he can summon you to wherever he is. I wish Sony would introduce an upgraded version of Call of the Hero, similar to the warlock ability in WoW which allows the warlock to summon another player from anywhere in the world to where he is. I do remember it's more complicated than just that, though: I think the warlock has to have two other groupmembers involved in casting the summons, analogous to the 3-man rule for EQ campfires. But would be sweet!



Edited, Sep 23rd 2013 7:16pm by Sippin

Going even further back, you could "recharge" the Staff of Forbidden Rites by finding a vendor with open "inventory" slots (i.e. when you sell an item, we see it appear). Sell the vendor a fully charged Staff. Then sell a nearly expended Staff. Buy both back and both would be 10-charge Staffs. The game just registered the initial Staff's properties and then made a "stack" out of any subsequent Staffs, assuming they were the same.

This was changed so that charged items would retain their charge flags even on the vendor.

My brother and I duoed several of the fights for my enchanter's epic 1.0 with his necro. We were "too low level" at the time (or so we were told) to break zones like Fear and The Hole. By killing me and him feign deathing up on the walls while summoning corpse... necro rez with essence emeralds is pretty old to the game (Luclin?)... we did it. Chain rune on him and his pet was how we did the kills (his dots were the damage of course). This was before potions and numerous other things. My gear was truly bad... he had a few nice planar things. Granted the chanter mob you kill in the Hole is not tough, but the Fear break... (more like Dodge assasinate and get out!) remains one of my favourite EQ memories.

Necro rez is underappreciated... I was in a goofy guild a few years back with some super high levels in Chardok. Everyone was dead except lower-level me and a way-high for chardok tank that was starting to die. I drag to a safer corner and necro rez a cleric... and the guild didn't even clue in that I had saved the attempt (by bringing back someone that could clicky rez the raid and heal the tank holding tons of mobs on him).

I love hearing the stories about the past, how things have changed, and how they used to work. It's really interesting, and I think it helps to get info that otherwise we don't think about saying. I'd like to make a thread which you guys just tell me stories about how things used to be. Little changes, big changes, things you used to do versus what you do now; just all manner of changes- changes in the characters, changes in the world's cities/geography, changes in imagery, changes in- just anything. It wouldn't be "post everything that has ever changed" but more just like "post what you want, no matter how small or big or whatever"

do you think this is a thread that would be interesting to build? Or has it been done and I can read it myself?



But did this not make him lose a bunch of xp? I remember when you died, you lost all your gear, respawned at home, and a huge chunk of xp which was not able to be gotten back with resurrections? Or, maybe I was just far too low a level to know that resurrections existed back then, and to regain xp lost from death?

Edited, Sep 24th 2013 12:31pm by broonsbane

One death isn't all that much XP loss, even un-rezzed, even back then. And, yes, the rez from the staff is 90% so definitely a minor loss of XP that a mage would "gladly" give up for the team.

When my guild first broke into Vex Thal, the end-zone raid of Luclin, we had a rogue pulling and I swear he used to die at least a dozen times by the time we got to the final boss, Aten Ha Ra. I have to admit he was kinda suicidal; we'd rez him and he'd go off to pull even before rez sickness dropped and even before we were able to rebuff him entirely. He took TWELVE for the team every raid.

I'd like to see a thread of the kind of fightin' stories us old-timers would share with noobish folks around the fireplace in a tavern in Kaladim or Rivervale! Let's start a thread. I'm game to tell my story of how the fruitful success or disastrous failure of a Vex Thal raid depended entirely on whether one cleric was able to regen enough mana to cast one more complete heal before a mage could summon a fully-mana'd replacement cleric!

I would really like to play around in the first version of Plane of Mischief again. That was a really unique and fun zone, although quite buggy. I believe by the time I got there(early to mid luclin) it was either the chessboard or puppet theater was horribly bugged and made it nearly impossible to get armor from there. I could be wrong on that but I do remember some problem blocking or nearly blocking the armor quests. I did get my resist flowers on my SK back then, and was browsing through my cleric's inventory the other day and saw a squire and knight card sitting in my deck of spontaneous generation. I kept my cleric bound in PoM for a long time and then kept a corpse active on my SK in the zone that I just had to pop back and rez every couple hours which was a major pain in the butt.

Summation of what I know & have been told or read:

The original PoM was a noncombat zone. It was all storyline and questing "games". It was also super buggy... and commonly believed to be highly exploitable. It was a very unique thing.

Current PoM is a hastily put together grind-n-kill with some funny names on drops. It's just another Plane that few have use for. Nilipuss causes more mischief in Rivervale...


I've been rooting for a mischief-themed expac for a long time. The whole of Norrath can be about to fall, all the gods fail and Bristlebane's workings ultimately prevail (they could do some crazy stuff. It would be fun).

That would probably be too much of a good thing! A revamped PoM as part of an xpac, I can see, altho given the preference old-timers have for the "original" Mischief I'm not sure any revamp would make them happy. Maybe return the zone to its roots and have players zone in transformed into lower level versions of themselves, but make the loot appropriate to their normal levels. For a lot of old-timers, Mischief was never entirely about the loot but as with most things in EQ loot is a big motivator.

Druids can teleport to bind too. I have both a wiz and druid in my group (not to mention a mage) so I use TL to bind all the time. I've bound smack in the middle of really dangerous spots (with wandering SI aggressive mobs) just to be able to pop in my box group instantly when they're ready to fight, after getting fully buffed up in PoK. Yeah, it's a risk but dying is GROSSLY "over-feared" these days. Even if your toon dies multiple times you can get ALL the deaths 100%-rezzed with the Expedient Recovery AA. Even without a rez getting XP back these days is no biggie.

Both druids and wizards also have Secondary Bind AA's as well so each class can plant their secondary bind in another hard-to-reach spot. When ready to bring a group in, cast Secondary Recall (which gates them to their Secondary Bind spot), bind with the primary, port back to group and then TL the whole group in.

I'm gonna suggest new ideas for druid and wizard AA's for a future expac: TL to Secondary Bind and Tertiary Bind. LOL

And then there are campfires. LOL



Edited, Sep 30th 2013 7:43pm by Sippin